>> for some use cases, a naive partition-based solution is going to be a >> lot slower >> than the old find+slice approach, no matter how you slice, index, or >> unpack the >> return value.
The index+slice approach will still be available for such cases. I am sure we will see relative speed versus string size benchmarks. Terry J. Reedy _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com